4/09/2014

Check out the resources below to find out more about what is SharePoint and learn how you can drive organic adoption within your organization. Alternatively, you can also visit http://DiscoverSharePoint.com.

DiscoverSharePoint.pdf—Discover SharePoint What is SharePoint? SharePoint is about giving you and the people you work with a better way to get things done together. Check out the scenarios in this book to see some of the ways SharePoint can help you work better together.

SharePoint_Adoption_Guide.docx—SharePoint 2013 Adoption Guide Adoption of new technologies at work, like SharePoint, won’t happen all at once. In this paper, learn how to craft an effective plan, aligned with business goals, that will demonstrate how SharePoint will benefit business people personally, how it will make their job easier, and how it will address the pain points they experience at work.

SharePointAdoptionKit.zip

The adoption kit contains resources to help you drive adoption as explained in the adoption guide, featuring a use case catalog, videos & how to guides, posters, and email templates.

Users are the key to realizing the full potential of your investment in Office 365.

To drive user adoption to its highest potential, use our proven change management strategy to clearly articulate the benefits of Office 365, build a community among your users, and provide the right help and support at the right times. In this download package, you'll find the Change Management Guide for the Enterprise, which describes a proven, four-phase process that organizations have used to drive up new technology adoption and maximize their return on investment. A comprehensive set of samples and templates let you build a customized set of project planning documents and user awareness materials based on your specific organization's needs.

If you haven’t installed this in your Production environment yet, please hold off. If you have it in a Test or Dev environment go ahead and keep testing it. I’ll update this blog post as I get more information.

Pierre Erol GIRAUDY

In this session, I am going to expose you to a *framework* with which you can use out-of-box technologies and features to automate SharePoint operations and governance and, in fact, Active Directory operations and governance as well.

I will share tools and scripts that I've used in customers, including NBC Sports, where we used this framework to manage our operations for the broadcast of the Winter Olympics last month. You'll get access to all of the scripts, and some customers put them in place "as is", but the real goal is to open your mind to new ways of putting the pieces together to more effectively manage IT with SharePoint. While a background in PowerShell is helpful, even if you're new to PowerShell you'll be equipped with everything you need to succeed.

Examples will include Site Provisioning, group management, and user administration.

Pierre Erol GIRAUDY

2/09/2014

SharePoint Customer Auditing Process

Auditing SharePoint is one of the indispensable processes before deploying new solutions on the existing farm since SharePoint is going to be more critical to the corporate business. There are many reasons why auditing before SharePoint deployments is really important:

dentifying things are properly configured in SharePoint farm

Identifying the impaction of hardware and software on SharePoint performance

Measuring security in several different aspects

Infrastructure involved to operate SharePoint

Customization maintenance

The wheel describes several parts you need to look at when conducting a SharePoint audit. This whitepaper has been written by 5 SharePoint MVP.

Run automatic checks to test your environment to make sure it’s ready for Office 365. No changes are made and no data is stored while these checks are being run. Be sure that you’re running the checks from a domain-joined computer in your on-premises environment. To run all the tests, you must have the necessary credentials and your workstation has to meet all the requirements. They are checked before the tests run. If your computer does not meet all the requirements, you can follow the provided links to install needed components.

We recommend that you also run automatic checks again after completing the items in the Readiness steps. These checks detect any errors, such as missing DNS records or Active Directory users that need to be fixed before you set up directory synchronization. It’s important to note that OnRamp checks are run against your on-premises environment, so DNS checks will verify internal resolution. Also, OnRamp will look at all of your Active Directory domains. You may see auto check failures for domains that you won’t be using in Office 365. Those failures can be safely ignored.

The Microsoft Online Services Diagnostics and Logging (MOSDAL) Support Toolkit performs network diagnostics and collects system configuration, network configuration, and logging information for applications that are used to connect to Microsoft Business Productivity Online Standard Suite (BPOS-S) or to Microsoft Office 365. The logs and diagnostic information that the tool generates provide data that helps technical support professionals troubleshoot configuration, network, installation, and other service-related issues. The MOSDAL Support Toolkit collects log files, registry keys, and configuration settings that would otherwise require time-consuming and labor-intensive collection by using separate tools.